Chapter 645 New Arcade Game: "SpaceRace"
In fact, Yang Wendong also wants to see the [Householders have their own houses] plan to succeed. Although this may have some impact on his real estate career, it is not very big, because his future real estate core is still a profession, that is, holding office buildings, commercial plazas, high-end apartments, large-scale infrastructure, etc.;
And after reaching a certain scale, his capital will also go out of Hong Kong, and the focus of real estate and infrastructure will be shifted to the mainland and Southeast Asia. The real estate in Hong Kong is just a small link in his future business.
But the essence of this matter is to confront all capital, even Yang Wendong cannot do it. Even in the future, the mainland has proposed similar plans to alleviate the housing problem in Hong Kong, but it was opposed by Hong Kong real estate developers and it was eventually left alone.
As part of real estate capital, he would not have to confront all capital, but moderate promotion of this plan can allow the poorest groups to live in affordable housing with a little dignity and make Hong Kong without the word "cage house" in the future, that's fine.
There will always be people living in poor places, which will be different from anywhere, as long as it is not so extreme.
Even in the future, he can build some factories in some places with a lot of land and not worthwhile in the New Territories, and then build affordable housing nearby. This will be a good solution for the middle and lower levels of Hong Kong, and his own consortium may benefit from it, which is more perfect.
Maybe no matter how you do it, it is impossible to help everyone, but it is enough to help a large part or even a small part.
After returning home, Yang Wendong told Su Yiyi what MacLeho mentioned. "There are people who live in this house? This new governor is really ambitious. If hundreds of thousands of houses are built, everyone will really have a place to live." Su Yiyi sighed.
With the experience of living in a squatter with Yang Wendong, she also knows what kind of experience it is. Even though the "bad" in society is much better than that in the past, many people still feel uncomfortable living.
Yang Wendong shook his head and said, "It's unlikely. Not to mention hundreds of thousands, it would be good to build tens of thousands of units. And the most difficult thing is actually not to build tens of thousands of houses, but how to distribute these tens of thousands of units to those in need. This is the most difficult."
Although his suggestion is to allocate according to physical disability and family difficulties, the Hong Kong government will not take the initiative if it will do so;
Another way, even if it does this, it will be difficult to ensure absolute fairness. There will even be some capitalists who combine government and business to try to benefit from it. "Well, are you going to participate?" Su Yiyi asked.
"I don't participate in decision-making, nor do I have the right to do it, and I don't even please myself if I participate." Yang Wendong shook his head and said, "But I am going to let Kinmen Architecture participate in it and bid for affordable housing;
One is to ensure quality, and the second is to let Kinmen Architecture designers be careful to see how to use the lowest budget and the lowest area to design a house that is more suitable for living."
In the construction and decoration industry, in fact, the design of large-area large floors and villas is very simple. As long as it is luxurious enough, the area is large enough;
When a small-area house can be designed well, it is difficult and requires real attention. In the past life, many real estate developers in Hong Kong launched a house of 20 to 30 square meters, which can actually live in a family of five or six, from kitchens, baths, bathrooms, living rooms, and bedrooms. This is really the peak level of human housing design, which the mainland cannot do at all.
Let Kinmen Construction participate in it more or less, or in other words, this business can support many people even if it has no profits, and its own designers can also help many groups who live in affordable housing in the future.
Su Yiyi nodded and said, "Well, that's fine."
"Actually, when I came back from the Governor's Office, I also had an idea." Yang Wendong suddenly said, "If I invested in building some houses, it might be a little better than affordable housing, and then used specifically for renting, this might be a good business."
Su Yiyi asked curiously: 'Don't there be a lot of renting on the market? What's the difference? ’
"It's still different. The housing on the market is scattered and the supporting facilities are very poor, which increases the cost of residents in vain." Yang Wendong explained: "But if I concentrate many supporting facilities together, such as cooking, concentrated in one place, not in my own house, it will be much more convenient. The residents live easily, and the property may even charge more rent."
Su Yiyi said: "That's not as good as the canteen model, allowing some businesses to cook for residents? Can they save time?"
A large number of workers or waiters have very long working hours and they still need to buy groceries and cook when they go home. It takes too much energy, but eating outside is too expensive, which has always been a problem that has troubled many people.
"It's OK, time is indeed more important." Yang Wendong agreed, "But I just think about it. It's actually a small business. If you have the opportunity to discuss it with Lao Zheng in the future, it mainly depends on the strategy of the Hong Kong government."
In fact, this is not very important. If you are profitable, try it. If you don't have it, it's fine;
After all, even the affordable housing that the Hong Kong government wants to launch is only to help the poorest groups. This is also the responsibility of the government. Yang Wendong will not participate. If he really invests in it, it will make the Hong Kong government escape. Although they are not afraid of being responsibilities and offending other real estate industries, they are not necessary; and most importantly, many people cannot afford to buy houses in the end, and they are also responsible for their own faults. In the late 1990s, the 85,000 plan was launched, but those who could clearly make profits from it but might be able to buy houses at a low price in the future did not come forward to maintain the Hong Kong government, which eventually led to the suspension of the affordable housing plan. Then the housing prices in Hong Kong never fell again;
This can only be said that they do not make profits for themselves, and they all expect others to snatch in front and then lie behind to share the fruits. That is all dream.
The next day, Yang Wendong also told Zheng Zhijie about this matter and first went to do a market research to see if he could do such a specialized rental business. By the way, he could also stock up on some land with long-term and stable returns in advance, which could be considered a killing two birds with one stone.
After that, he didn't care much about this matter. Changxing Group's main market is still overseas, and only a few acquisitions that may be involved in Hong Kong have attracted Yang Wendong's attention.
At the end of March, Intel in the United States made another breakthrough. They once again developed a new chip, named it the 8008 chip;
It happened that Gordon Moore came to Hawaii for a vacation, so Yang Wendong invited him to come to Hong Kong after his family vacation.
"Eric." Moore greeted with a smile after coming to Yang Wendong to get the office.
Yang Wendong also said, "Gordon, I haven't seen you for half a year. I heard you have developed a new chip?"
"Yes, this is an 8-bit chip, and its computing power is much stronger than the previous 4004." Gordon Moore said with a smile: "With the improvement of chip computing power, many application levels will be of great help. I think soon, we will usher in a new electronic chip and the era of controlling everything."
"This is indeed good news." Yang Wendong asked, "Does my game need to be modified as well?"
The chip of his [ping-pong] game console before was 4004, which was one of the most advanced chips at that time. I didn't expect it to be outdated a little more than half a year.
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But this is normal. The electronics industry is changing with each passing day. Even for smartphones decades later, chip companies such as Qualcomm will update flagship chips once a year, and non-flagships are even more likely to be two or three times a year.
Moore shook his head and said, "No need. Even if you are planning to make new games in the future, you can use 4004. The previous design framework was based on 4004, including those sent to Hong Kong, who have learned this set of knowledge;
If you replace the 8-bit chip, then all the knowledge needs to be re-learned, which is too expensive. In fact, it is not just your industry, but many other products will basically not be replaced if you have already used 4-bit chips. Only some new products may use 8-bit chips according to their needs."
In the design department of Intel, there are also some Chinese from Hong Kong in the past, but they do not learn chip design, but learn how to use existing chip development, etc.;
This is similar to Intel is a car manufacturer, and these people used to learn how to repair cars and drive cars.
Yang Wendong asked again: "What if my game has high requirements for chips in the future? A chip that is too early may not work, right?"
"If the requirements are high, then you may have to replace it. There is no way." Gordon shrugged and asked: "Could you be ready to develop a new game? I heard that ping-pong is very popular in bars in the United States."
"The results of ping-pong are indeed okay." Yang Wendong smiled and said: "I am indeed preparing to develop a new game."
[Table-pong] As the world's first arcade game, in Yang Wendong's opinion, it will be boring to play for a while, but for people who have never been exposed to electronic games in this era, the playability is still very high.
At the beginning, Honor put arcade machines in the bar for free, but when the bar owner discovered its profitability, he also had the intention to buy, which stimulated the industrial chain. Honor Electronics focused on producing arcade machines, and the profits at the back end were naturally the bar.
In more than half a year, more than 4,000 [ping-pong] arcades were sold. This data does not seem to be a lot, but it is also because after all, this is a new product just launched. In the era without the Internet, it is difficult for any product to open up channels and popularity, and it takes a long time to succeed. The current achievement is already very strong. In terms of profits, arcades have surpassed Honor's TV industry.
Although [ping-pong] can continue to make money and expand the market, if the arcade market continues to expand, a game is definitely not enough. After all, no matter how fun the game is, even Mario in the future, not everyone likes it. If you want to expand the market, you must have more games.
"What kind of game?" Gordonmore also became interested. He actually likes to play [ping-pong].
Yang Wendong replied: "It is a game similar to ping-pong, but complicated, I call it "SpaceRace"."
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